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EXTERIOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The outer side or surface of something
Synonyms:
exterior; outside
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("exterior" is a kind of...):
surface (the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The region that is outside of something
Synonyms:
exterior; outside
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("exterior" is a kind of...):
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "exterior"):
open; open air; out-of-doors; outdoors (where the air is unconfined)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building
Example:
exterior paints
Classified under:
Similar:
out (outside or external)
outside (leading to or from the outside)
Also:
out-of-door; outdoor; outside (located, suited for, or taking place in the open air)
Attribute:
position; spatial relation (the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated)
Antonym:
interior (situated within or suitable for inside a building)
Context examples:
A projection or prominence opposite the tragus that is found on the lower exterior portion of the ear.
(Antitragus, NCI Thesaurus)
The constant, functional portions of Env remain protected by an exterior with regions that mutate rapidly.
(The Structure and Dynamics of HIV Surface Spikes, NIH)
His was the gift of sympathy, understanding; and beneath his alarmed exterior that sympathetic process went on.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The findings align with the idea that, hundreds of millions (up to a billion) years ago, materials beneath Ceres' surface pushed upward toward the exterior, creating fractures in the crust.
(Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution, NASA)
Within there was a high and large hall, ornamented with Eastern decorations, which harmonized with the domes and minarets of the exterior.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Harriet, she found, had never in her life been inside the Vicarage, and her curiosity to see it was so extreme, that, considering exteriors and probabilities, Emma could only class it, as a proof of love, with Mr. Elton's seeing ready wit in her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The addition of a multiple C9 proteins creates the membrane attack complex results in a large pore that spans the membrane of the cell being attacked, allowing ions to flow freely between the cellular interior and exterior.
(Classical Complement Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
I smiled at Bessie's frank answer: I felt that it was correct, but I confess I was not quite indifferent to its import: at eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings anything but gratification.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
About noon, however, she began—but with a caution—a dread of disappointment which for some time kept her silent, even to her friend—to fancy, to hope she could perceive a slight amendment in her sister's pulse;—she waited, watched, and examined it again and again;—and at last, with an agitation more difficult to bury under exterior calmness, than all her foregoing distress, ventured to communicate her hopes.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Let the reader add, to complete the picture, refined features; a complexion, if pale, clear; and a stately air and carriage, and he will have, at least, as clearly as words can give it, a correct idea of the exterior of Miss Temple—Maria Temple, as I afterwards saw the name written in a prayer-book intrusted to me to carry to church.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
